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- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
Category Archives: Music
Roger Chapman’s CHAPPO / Live In Hamburg, Hybrid and Lowdown, and Under No Obligation
I think I’ve said it before. Roger Chapman is a personal favourite of mine. What a voice! (“Wot a @#$%in’ voice!” as SPike has said.) From his days with Family, through the Streetwalkers, and then into the solo years, Chappo … Continue reading
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Tagged folk-rock, rock and roll
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The London Lasses & Pete Quinn’s Tracks Across the Deep
All these lasses were born in the London area, but have family ties in Ireland. Together they are a fine reminder that the London Irish community is alive and thriving. The London Lasses are Karen Ryan on fiddle and whistle, … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music
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Various artists’ The Unbroken Circle: the Musical Heritage of the Carter Family
Tribute albums can be a dangerous thing. They can be so reverential that they miss the whole reason for the tribute. Sometimes they’re good if one band provides backup for the variety of soloists. Sometimes they’re better if lesser known … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Jim Irvin and Colin McLear, editors’ The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
Trying to fill out your CD collection of reissued gems from the 1960s and 1970s? Wondering which Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley albums are classics? Spent the ’90s listening to heavy metal and wonder what else you missed? Trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged Popular music
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Various artists’ Heroes & Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Songs that tell stories have long been a major component of folklore worldwide. And in the arid lands where the southwestern United States meets northern Mexico, a type of ballad called the corrido is still an important component of everyday … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, music, world music
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Muddy Waters’ Hard Again and I’m Ready
In the late ’70s Muddy Waters was just coming out of a slump. Chess Records had given up on him, after trying everything to sell the older bluesmen. The Woodstock Album in 1976 was his best album in years (and … Continue reading
The Waifs’ Up All Night
The Waifs have an interesting back-story of months and years spent travelling the byways of their native Australia, playing in bars and on the streets, honing their skills — instrumental, vocal and songwriting. That hard apprenticeship accounts for the strength … Continue reading
Kristin Mooney’s Kristin Mooney
Kristin Mooney has made a contemporary folk album that defies easy categorization. The Minneapolis native has spent time in Nashville, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt her any. For this collection of a dozen songs, all of which she … Continue reading
The Kennedys’ Stand
Pete and Maura Kennedy are back with another healthy dose of their signature brand of upbeat, spiritual folk-rock. Stand is their sixth release since 1994, and their first for Koch. The Kennedys’ music is similar in tone to that of … Continue reading
Hair of the Dog’s Release the Hounds, At The Parting Glass, and Let It Flow
There’s something in the American soul, I think, that makes us all want to hop in the car and just drive somewhere far away, spend a few hours there, and then drive somewhere else, maybe farther away or maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music
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